(ppl.) a. [f. WEED sb.1 and v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Covered with weeds. Of a crop: Abounding in or choked with weeds; weedy.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., III. 193. Upon a weeded rock this old man sat.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XII. 785. [It] sent up only weeded, raggy, and mixed crops.

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1830.  Tennyson, Mariana, i. Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

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  2.  Freed from weeds. Also fig.

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1766.  Sp. agst. Suspending & Dispensing Prerogative, in Parl. Hist. (1813), XVI. 310. It was the rump of a well weeded parliament that abolished the monarchy.

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1848.  Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. i. 5. The fields are covered with fine well-weeded turf.

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  3.  Of a crop: Thinned out; sparse.

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1831.  T. Macqueen, Gloaming Amusem., 65.

        O! white, white was his weedit hair,
  An’ pale, pale was his wrinkl’d brow;
His solemn tread was scarcelie heard,
  As fault’rinlie he near her drew.

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